Martine returns to the lands of her two parents and runs through Belgium In the new album of the prolific series. Since 2021, it is the French author Rosalind Elland-Goldsmith which makes the little girl travel to different destinations. At the flat country, Martine, in the middle of a musical tour, stops in some flagship tourist places.
The work of Rosalind Elland-Goldsmith remains solidly anchored in the legacy of the series. The author indeed develops a scenario and confronts him with the reserve of illustrations of the original designer, Marcel Marlier, died in 2011. She then selects the drawings which will best accompany her story. The illustrations are placed in photos of the different cities visited by the young heroine. The 45 -year -old author explains:
It is a meticulous, creative, but also technical work because it is part of a strict setting: you cannot create new drawings, you cannot modify them. The destination is a real place and the scenarios and the narrative approach must be renewed from one story to another.
She specifies based on what Gilbert Delahaye et Marcel Marlier created to give Martine “A contemporary anchoring that resonates with our time“. Tourte was not chosen by chance. It is from this region that the two historic authors come, as is the Casterman publishing house, now owned by the French group Gallimard.
The first album was published in 1954. Today, more than 120 million copies were sold in French. The sixty historical albums of the series, interrupted in 2010, do not include precise geographic references but, since the revival in 2021, several emblematic places of France have been the scene of the heroin adventures, such as the Louvre or Versailles.
“Martine in Belgium” Wednesday in bookstores will be released on Wednesday. A special edition “Martine Visit Brussels“had already been published in 2021.
